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Watch: How Machine Learning Is Fighting Cancer?

Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” from data, without being explicitly programmed. This video shows how it helps to predict and treat cancer.

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Artur Olesch

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Microsoft researches are using machine learning to help oncologists figure out the most effective individualized cancer treatments for patients, by providing an intuitive way to sort through all the research data available in recent years.

Machine learning has become so pervasive that you probably interact with it dozens of times a day, without even knowing it. For example, when you watch Netflix, use Uber and Facebook or buy something on Amazon. But it can be also used for something more than only increasing sales.

So how can a computer fight one of the most complex and deadly challenges humans face?

Brand new video from Real Engineering – a channel run by engineers – step by step explains a complicated theory of machine learning, neutral network and predictions.